Improvement in wagon-beds



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Letters Patent N'o. 57,623, dated August 13, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-BEDS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, RILEY BRAT'ION, of Oskaloosa, in the county of Mahaslia, and State of Iowa, have invented a new Improvement in lagon-Beds; and .I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference boing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature ofniy invention consists in metallic standards attached to a wagon-bed of' the ordinary ferm, said standards with hooks on the lower ends hooking into staples in the bottom bars of the hed.

Figure 1 represents the wagon-hed complete when p ntl together.

'Figure 2 represents one of the side-boards detaehcrh Figure 3 represents oneot' the bottom bars of the wagon-boil detached.

a a a represent the metallic standards. l) I) in iig. 1 represent the apertures in which the hooked -ends of the standards are placed. c c in iig. 8 represent metallic staples fastened to the bottom bars. d d el d represent the bottom bars. e e represent plates of metal covering the staples c c. These plates have the apertures b I) through them.

The hooked ends ofthe metallic standards a a a arepnt into the apertures b and the lower ends hooked into the staples c c. The side boards are then straightened up and the endgates put in their places, and the front end gate fastened with the hooks g g, and the bed is then complete. In the drawing, black denotes wood and red denotes metal.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An'improvement on ordinary wagon-beds as herein described,- consisting of metallic standards with hooked ends fastening in staples, and claim the peculiar-forni ofstandards'and location of staples as 'my invention, by

which a wagon-hed may be easily and quickly taken apart and pntvtogether.

RILEYf BRATTON.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. LACEY, W. E. SHEPHERD. 

